Chapter Seventy-Six: The Great Xia Military System

When Zhang Xuan was recuperating from his illness, he actually reviewed it repeatedly, and the most he reviewed was the Battle of Dahongshan. Already after the ambush war.

Without him, in the battle of Xiangyang, it was just two rats fighting in the hole, and the brave won when they met on a narrow road. It has to be the courage to dare to work hard, to be able to work hard.

Zhang Xuan fought a battle, and this posture of daring to fight hard was raised, and in the battle of Xiangyang, he couldn't play any tricks. It's just that the tip of the needle is on the wheat mang, and the white blade is handed over. In such a battle, all that can be played is a small trick, and the overall quality and courage of the army can be compared.

This kind of battle is very suitable for Zhang Xuan to fight.

Zhang Xuan is certainly dull in fighting, but he also has a ruthless spirit. It was this ruthlessness that made Zhang Xuan persist to the end and force the Qing army to retreat.

But the battle of Dahongshan, and the subsequent battles, had more room for maneuver.

Zhang Xuan thought about it carefully, whether it was Xu Du's resolute attack or Cao Zongyu's knife plan. Against them, Zhang Xuan didn't dare to say that he would lose, but he didn't dare to say that he would win.

Zhang Xuan himself commanded, just these two famous general seedlings, so Zhang Xuan had to sigh, Maxima often has Bole but not often. Cao Zongyu and Zhang Xuan have been teachers and friends all the way, Cao Zongyu has this ability, Zhang Xuan has known it for a long time, and Xu is worthy of being a Jiangnan general, but it is beyond Zhang Xuan's expectations.

So apart from the two of them, among the millions of troops in Great Xia, there are not one or two who are above the leading troops, better than or, the generals who are indistinguishable from him Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan wants to come, there must be.

Then Zhang Xuan's positioning of himself was shaken again.

Zhang Xuan asked himself, is his greatest value to lead the division of the first brigade to fight outside and defeat the enemy?

Before the Battle of Xiangyang, Zhang Xuan thought so, but after the Battle of Xiangyang, Zhang Xuan didn't think so.

Without him, in the battle of Xiangyang, he was under the pressure of the rise and fall of the world. Now every time Zhang Xuan thinks about it, he has a feeling of being unable to sleep at night. Zhang Xuan can't admit it if he wants to, he may not be as good as Duoduo and Azig as famous Manchu generals in military law.

No, Zhang Xuan didn't dare to take responsibility, and it wasn't that Zhang Xuan couldn't withstand the pressure.

But Zhang Xuan knows that soldiers are important things for the country, don't look at the situation in the world that seems to be stable now, but this stable situation is likely to be destroyed between World War I. There are too many things in history to prosper the country in World War I and destroy the country in World War I.

The Great War that can come several times from history, that war was not like this.

Great Xia could not afford the defeat of a battle of hundreds of thousands, or millions.

But Zhang Xuan is just a mediocre talent, and he doesn't dare to say how talented he is, at least he didn't even get into Tsinghua University and Peking University. Even the graduates of Tsinghua University and Peking University, in the long river of history, most people dare not say that they are talented and intelligent.

Therefore, the way Zhang Xuan thought of was to make up for it in the system.

Establish an advanced military system to counter the superiority of the Qing army's combat strength and generals.

Now that he is expected to ascend to the position of being in charge of the military and political affairs of Great Xia, Zhang Xuan is naturally very excited, and some things after the Battle of Xiangyang are not taken to heart, but are fully focused on the revision of the Privy Council Constitution, and he also participates some of the people under his command.

For example, Yao Qisheng, Hu Tang, Cao Zongyu, Xu Du and others.

With the addition of these people, Zhang Xuan's many untimely ideas gradually became grounded.

At this moment, Luo Yulong asked, and Zhang Xuan naturally put together the system he thought.

"The minister learned from the experience of the former Ming Dynasty and divided the Great Xia soldiers into three divisions, one of which was the Beijing camp, or perhaps the forbidden army, and was stationed in the Beijing division. It is the elite chosen by the garrisons everywhere. For the time being, the minister plans to have one hundred and twenty battalions. One battalion of three thousand people. A total of 360,000. ”

"The establishment of the battalion level and below will remain unchanged."

"These 120 battalions were stationed along the river and stationed in Nanjing. Xijing, Jiujiang. 100 battalions of the army, 20 battalions of water divisions, control the Yangtze River. ”

"The 100-battalion land division will be stationed in one place, or military needs, and several battalions will be stationed in one place, which will be led by the general, and the battalions stationed in the capital division will be directly under the Privy Council."

Luo Yulong could naturally see Zhang Xuan's arrangement.

Now the foundation of Great Xia is the Yangtze River, plus Zhejiang Province, except for here, the rest of the places are just corners. The 300,000 troops were stationed along the river, and with the addition of the naval division, they could use the convenient waterways to easily support various battlefields, such as the Nanjiang battlefield, the Changsha battlefield, and the Huai'an battlefield.

That's a good idea. But Luo Yulong directly asked the question he was most concerned about, and said: "Where do these 300,000 forbidden troops belong?" ”

Luo Yulong is also very good now, and asked key questions.

Checks and balances are needed for everything. The 300,000 forbidden army is near the Beijing Division, if there is not enough checks and balances, whoever controls the 300,000 forbidden army in the future will control the Great Xia regime, and how to deal with the 300,000 army is the important point of Zhang Xuan's privy council system.

It is necessary to give full play to combat effectiveness, but also not to have the possibility of getting out of control.

For the emperor, the loss of control of the military power was even more terrifying than the fact that the army could not fight.

Zhang Xuan said: "Please forgive the minister to put down this section first, and after a while, I will explain it to Your Majesty in detail." ”

"Okay." Luo Yulong nodded and said, "Go on." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "In addition to the forbidden army, there are also border troops, namely Huai'an Town, Huaixi Town, Xiangyang Town, Fujian Town, Nanchang Town, and the five towns. The generals of each town have the rank of general, and they have several battalions under their jurisdiction. It depends. ”

"Get rid of the border army

In addition, there is also the Xiang Army. Zhang Xuan continued: "The ministers watched the war together, the people had three hardships, one was suffering from the military chaos, the soldiers crossed the border, there were often chaotic soldiers for chaos, and the military law of the country and the dynasty was strict, and there were very few such things. Second, it is difficult to collect. Together, the military consumes a thousand gold every day, and where does this gold come from, it comes from the people. The war has been protracted for a long time, and the people have naturally suffered unspeakably. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xuan sighed slightly. There are some things that Zhang Xuan can see clearly, but he can't change them, just like the battle of Xiangyang, which almost destroyed the vicinity of Xiangyang, and put Bai Wang's business for several years into the fire. What can Zhang Xuan do even if he is distressed?

Nothing can be done.

"However, the people suffer the most, but not these two, but the heavy servants of the people." Zhang Xuan said: "Fifteen from the military, eighty from the beginning." It was the Tang Dynasty, not today, and today's situation is that once the people are strong, life and death are indefinite, but they don't know where the bones are, and they are still people in a spring boudoir dream. ”

This is Zhang Xuan's biggest feeling.

In any battle, the most people die not from the soldiers on both sides of the battle, but from the auxiliary soldiers.

It can be said that unless they are stationed on the spot, the recruited people, the people who are responsible for transporting food and materials, are the most likely to not return, many of them die in the confrontation, many are captured, and some of them are even forcibly conscripted into the army. I don't know where I'm thinking.

Moreover, under the Ming Dynasty system, in fact, taxes are not terrible, but what is terrifying is service. Because there is almost no surplus money in the grassroots finances, and many things must be done, the people are appointed to be responsible for this, such as transporting materials to a certain place. Designate a certain person to take responsibility, and with the road conditions at this time, it is easy to never go back. In the transit of the soldiers, the establishment of camp fortifications requires a large number of people.

These people were heavily involved in the battlefield, otherwise many fortifications would not have been built so easily.

However, the casualties of the people were never counted in the battle losses of both sides. Because they are not regular soldiers, Zhang Xuan even checked, and many people don't even have pensions.

Zhang Xuan specifically proposed the Xiang Army.

In Zhang Xuan's view, the so-called box army is the wartime engineer unit and transport unit. Non-wartime engineering troops, even the Ming Dynasty actually has such a unit, that is, the Cao soldiers. The army dedicated to maintaining the canal, not to mention the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty even had a special box army economy. It's fairly common, so I won't say much about it here.

Zhang Xuan didn't ask for anything else, only that the war could be far away from the people. Professional things, let professional people do it.

Luo Yulong didn't care too much about the soldiers, or rather, he didn't care much about the armies that couldn't fight directly, the focus he cared about was always above the soldiers, so he asked: "What is the difference between the border army and the forbidden army?" Zhang Xuan said: "What Yichen thinks, there should be no difference. All the armies of Great Xia are naturally one, and there should be no difference between the border army and the forbidden army. It's just a difference in the place of stationing. ”

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